In general, the term "benefit period" refers to the amount of time you use a service, usually related to health insurance. So if you break your arm and stay in a hospital for a few days, those days would become your benefit period for that insurance claim.
There's also a more specific context in which the term gets used. Within the U.S. government's Medicare program, "benefit period" applies to the use of hospitals or skilled nursing facilities. With Medicare, the benefit period begins the day you check into the facility and ends when you haven't received care at the facility at any point for 60 days in a row.
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Finance a la shmoop.. what is a beneficiary? well in Latin, bene is
good so this is like a good place to catch fish...well close not [Old man fishing in the ocean]
really but being a beneficiary is good it means you get stuff like if you are
the beneficiary of weird uncle Al's will then you get his odd collection of hair
balls shaped like US presidents and thirty two thousand two hundred sixty [Uncle Al's will appears]
$9.32... in essence then you are the beneficiary of his will you are the one
set up to benefit by the death of someone who wanted to favor you with
their assets when they had you know passed on to the great beyond where hair [Uncle Al with white wings in heaven]
balls will fall....
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